September 15, 2010
Points
I was out walking the other evening when a neighbor woman on her deck hollered at her twin teens through the patio door. “OK, that’s 10 points for both of you.” There was a pause and then, “And that’s another 20 points for whoever said that!” It’s interesting that scoring points can be a either a good thing or a bad thing. Believers sometimes fall into a similar mental game with the Lord. It’s as though we think the Lord doesn’t have anything better to do than to keep score.
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Gail;
-----God is perfect, and He can not live with imperfection. His Word is clear about this. One point scored is enough to be imperfection. So there is no score above the score of one which initiates separation from God. That happens at one. And imperfection occurs even in the heart and mind. This was the drift of Jesus’ discussion at Mat 5:21-30. Now a child in the womb certainly has no education upon which to ponder and formulate mental activity. But from the time the brain and bodily nervous system has developed their basic form, there are emotions. The feelings of joy and happiness are surely not unaccompanied by feelings of frustration and displeasure, which are imperfect emotional products. At birth the normal first expression is of complaint and displeasure exhibited by the crying. We all score our point before we have even formed the mental capacity to understand it.
-----I don’t think God has any interest in the tally of our points. But He does attend to every point we score. For we will be required to give account for every careless word we utter (Mat 12:36), and, “...we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body.” (II Cor 5:10) It is as though every imperfection we make has an adverse effect upon the perfection of His kingdom, and He notices it all.
-----Yet for us who acknowledge Jesus Christ, His notice of our scored points is not for retribution at the required time of judgment. The account we give Him for the imperfections we made can only be the truth, “I erred. Often greatly.” And like only one of these points is sufficient for separation from Him, only one point is sufficient for entering into His righteousness - the calling upon the name of Jesus for mercy.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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